Tag: London Gardens
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Cauliflower cheese with Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens isn’t an author I normally associate with writing about gardens. The grimy back streets around Covent Garden might come closest, but last week, recovering from a nearly all-night election watch, I visited the Charles Dickens Museum in his childhood home in Doughty Street… … and had a pick-me-up bowl of cauliflower cheese soup…
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Grass Mounds, Taking Risks and Riots – Spa Fields, Exmouth Market
I’ve been to Exmouth Market several times, but never ventured down this uninviting passage to visit Spa Fields… I’d thought it was a perfect place to take a plate of street food from the market, but then I read a little about its history. Turns out that its well-known for the Spa Fields riots of…
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Chelsea Fringe – London Garden No 12
Five Minutes Peace: a garden to sit in, a poem to read, and a prompt to write to … No 12. (Find out more about what this is all about here.) BONNINGTON SQUARE, VAUXHALL What do you get if you design a garden by committee? Well, if you are lucky you will end up with something…